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- JEP 540: Simple JSON API
Be strict in what you produce, be lenient in what you accept. Grr.> trailing commas and comments are not supported - I couldn’t find it in the docs, but does the OpenJDK contain Java’s GUI? It would be cool to write the backend in whatever language you want and then have an ACTUAL library that works on all platforms that also looks like the system GUIby alfiedotwtf
- I am looking forward these advances to reach IntelliJ/Eclipse and Netbeans.by fithisux
- I'm not a Java person, but I'm curious how fast it is nowadays, and also the startup time. Can it be used to write shell commands with, for example?by amelius
- The big deal with this release is value objects preview. https://openjdk.org/jeps/401
- It's really refreshing to see the pace of Java development pick up so much over the past few years.
The last few years of server-side has been on Kotlin for me, however, modern Java is looking more and more like anything I'd need in a language.
by jmarlow47 - Most people are thirsting for value objects but I'm mostly looking forward to:
Developers work with certificates a bit too seldom to aquire proficiency with conversions. Being able to use PEM directly will ease a lot of pain.542: PEM Encodings of Cryptographic Objects 543: Structured ConcurrencyI've given concurrency a couple of attempts over the years and I don't... like... or understand?... how the existing Java concurrency primitives are supposed to work. The only library that has clicked with me is Awaitility but for some reason Awaitility is intended for testing and not for production. Maybe Structured Concurrency will finally unlock something for me?
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